By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-11-27 21:21:16 | Updated at 2024-11-27 23:44:27
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US president-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he was nominating staunch loyalist and retired general Keith Kellogg as his Ukraine envoy, charged with ending the 2½-year Russian invasion.
Trump campaigned on a platform of ushering a swift end to the Ukraine war, boasting that he would quickly mediate a ceasefire deal between President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
But his critics have warned that the incoming Republican is likely to leverage US military aid to pressure Kyiv into an agreement that left it ceding occupied territory permanently or agreeing not to join Nato.
“I am very pleased to nominate General Keith Kellogg to serve as Assistant to the President and Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia,” Trump said in a statement on social media.
“Keith has led a distinguished Military and Business career, including serving in highly sensitive National Security roles in my first Administration.”
A fixture on the cable news circuit, the 80-year-old national security veteran co-wrote an academic paper earlier this year calling for Washington to leverage military aid as a means of pushing for peace talks.
